AuthorTopic: VECTORLINUX 7.0 RC2 Bug Reports (Read 120002 times)

One of the strong things of VectorLinux (VL6.0-light-live-final) was for me the fact that it was able to boot and run, with the use of PLOP Boot Manager, from usb devices wherethe mainboard bios itself can't boot from.This possibility seems to have vanished in VL7.0-std-live-rc2. For now Vector is not ableto find the livecd.sgn file anymore. And this is very pitty because there are not many distro'swho worked together with PLOP right out of the box. Vector was one of the very 'seldom' ones.This is also not a bug bug even so I think it's important to mention.

I had one of those annoying lockups this morning. No browser was running. I was listening to local music files with VLC. The music continued to play but I could not get control of keyboard or mouse, so had no alternative but shutting off the computer with the power switch. It's not really a lockup, it's loss of control of keyboard and mouse, neither of which responds at all.

This happened on the Sempron computer. I don't use the Athlon 64 enough to know if it would also happen there. It doesn't happen on the laptop with VL6 Light.

I think there is a bug somewhere because a number of us have reported this behavior (no keyboard, no mouse). It would be excellent if it could be squashed before VL7 Final.--GrannyGeek

I don't know how to get a kernel dump from dmesg. Of course, when the no keyboard/no mouse situation occurs, I can't run dmesg or look at any logs or anything else. But I've looked in /var/log/syslog, var/log/messages, and /var/log/debug and haven't found anything around the time the lockup occurred that would give a hint as to what's going on.

From experience I can say that it seems totally random, not related to any particular program, not when the system is straining with a lot going on. To me it seems like some process has taken over the system and won't give space to operate the keyboard or mouse. But I can't check this out at all.

I guess my use of the term "froze" or "freezes" is a bit strong. For example, when it locked up twice yesterday during the World Cup I could still hear the sound. But the keyboard and the mouse would not do anything.

Would it be possible to include an application that can copy video DVDs, such as K3B? I haven't found such a function in XFburn. It's something I have to do regularly. I installed K3B in RC1 but was hoping to avoid KDE stuff this time. So when I need to copy a DVD, I boot to Windows and use Nero. I'd prefer to stay in Linux, of course.

Does the brasero program copy video DVDs? I've never tried it. The Web site does mention copying DVDs but it wasn't clear to me that it would copy video DVDs.

Is there a way to copy a DVD from a terminal prompt? I don't mind doing it that way but I'd need help on setting up the proper command. I've researched it a bit but whatever I read was beyond my understanding.--GrannyGeek

gg, an idea that might pan out for DVD copying with Nero:I've used NeroLinux a couple times in the past (v2 and v3), and they installed and worked great under older versions of VL. I'm not certain of it's dependencies (if any) but I know that they worked under a standard 5.x/6.x XFCE install that contained no Gnome or KDE. The v3 that I test a while back seemed to contain all (or most) of the functionality of the Windows-based v6 series, and my understanding is that v4 has improved on that a fair amount. You can grab a v4 trial version just to test out, and the upgrade price from Trial to Full is ~$16 US.

I'm experiencing trouble with Xarchiver throwing errors when creating an archive and adding files. Got it to work a few times, but most of the time archive is incomplete. Would other testers please check that out?

I'm experiencing trouble with Xarchiver throwing errors when creating an archive and adding files. Got it to work a few times, but most of the time archive is incomplete. Would other testers please check that out?

Nightflier, are you wanting this testing on live version standard are both Also, is there any format in particular you would like tested. Are you using directories and files or just files.

I was able to create a tar.gz and a tar.xz without much issue on standard and live, also added and empty txt file.Ken

This issue is for people who have installed the live version to test.After installing I found I could not mount any of my thumb drives. Upon inspection I saw the media folder was missing from /Did a mkdir /media as root and created the folder and was able to use thumbdrives again.

I used unetbootin for my install, was wondering if anyone who had used CD version of live to install had same issue.Ken